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  I was walking up to the grocery store with my husband when a wildlife rehab truck pulled into a driveway a couple houses ahead of us. I thought I saw something in the cab of the truck so when we got to that driveway I told my husband hold on a second. I waited for the man to get out of his truck and then I asked him "Sir is that an owl in your vehicle?" "Yeah!" he said. "Come say hey." And that's how I met this handsome young man, Odin the Owl.

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  @cyberseckyle@infosec.exchange with some really good shit! #Mastodon 'Sharing a passage from an article can mean copying the quote, opening Mastodon, finding the article again for its title and URL, and assembling the post by hand. I wanted to highlight the part worth sharing, click an extension icon, and have those pieces waiting in an editable draft. That is the workflow behind Drift — Share to Mastodon, my new Chrome extension.' https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/drift-share-to-masto...

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  #politics #Germany #AI #deepfakes #YouTube "Researchers identified 47 YouTube channels using artificial presenters to discuss conflicts, geopolitics and German politics, with videos recording more than 7.5 million views." https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/21/ai-generated-experts-make-up-large-network-of-german-political-videos

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  Where's my little free pantry pal? I think of you every time I read about community fridges. @tinker@infosec.exchange https://evanstonnow.com/downtown-community-fridge-now-open/

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  Today in NO SHIT, SHERLOCK 'New research published in August confirms that Google’s AI Search reduces clicks to publisher websites and presents a user experience that is so bad it makes them seek out alternative search engines like Duck, Duck, Go, Bing, and Yahoo.' https://www.searchenginejournal.com/research-shows-google-ai-mode-sends-less-clicks-is-a-poor-user-experience/590221/

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  #music #InternetCulture #LofiGirl 'Today, Lofi Girl has 15.8 million YouTube subscribers. And behind that familiar animation is an increasingly sprawling operation. ' https://mashable.com/life/lofi-girl-new-radio-lofi-house-teacher

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  Just sitting over here sipping my tea and reading Ed Sheeran news https://www.westernmassnews.com/2026/09/15/three-supporting-acts-quit-ed-sheeran-tour-after-macklemore-is-dropped/

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  #NYC #biking #housing #inequality 'As you ride through a neighborhood with a high number of residents that struggle to afford rent, the device kicks in and adds resistance to the bike’s front wheel, as if some magical force is applying the brake.' https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-artist-creates-device-that-slows-citi-bikes-passing-through-rent-burdened-areas

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  #Linux #terminal #learning #games 'Instead of memorizing commands in a vacuum, I was climbing a castle tower, building a hut, clearing spiders out of a cellar, and shuffling coins around with the same commands I’d use in a normal shell.' https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-memorizing-linux-commands-and-started-playing-this-instead/

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  I think Ferret James Bond is the only James Bond I would watch https://theonion.com/amazon-mgm-narrows-list-of-james-bond-candidates-to-6-actors-1-extremely-suave-ferret/

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  #military #journalism #censorship #politics 'The Pentagon on Friday fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes and a top reporter for insubordination after they spoke publicly against any interference by the Defense Department in the military news outlet...' https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-censorship-media-d42affb0c17fef31c6089645c8dbbe70

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  Local News America Gets Faster Search and Smushed Bugs Local News America aggregates the RSS feeds of over 1000 local news sources and makes them searchable by keyword and/or browsable by state with links back to the original content. I've smushed some bugs and made the search faster. https://www.calishat.com/2026/08/04/local-news-america-gets-faster-search-and-smushed-bugs/ #news #LocalNews #RSS

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  #Russia #Ukraine #propaganda #disinformation 'It is as if shifting the economy onto a war footing has turned the once-mighty propaganda machine into a rotting pumpkin.' https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/28/russian-propaganda-is-getting-worse-as-the-war-drags-on-a93358

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  #unions #museums #GLAM #EricCarle 'Members of the union would include staff in collections, development, marketing, bookshop, education and guest services. The museum was founded by Eric and Barbara Carle in 2002.' https://gazettenet.com/2026/08/03/workers-at-eric-carle-museum-petition-to-form-a-union/

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  I spent over seven hours working on Local News America yesterday but oooooo don't it run better! https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news.html

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  Tinder AI, Hank Green, How To Fight a Data Center, More: ResearchBuzz AI Update, August 3, 2026 AI PROBLEMS PetaPixel: Tinder Pauses AI Photo Editing Tool After Woman Creeped Out By It. "Jeni Rubin tells NewsNation that she logged into the app for the first time in a month when she received a notification that Tinder’s ‘Photo Enhance’ feature had worked on one of her… http://researchbuzz.me/2026/08/03/tinder-ai-hank-green-how-to-fight-a-data-center-more-researchbuzz-ai-update-august-3-202...

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  RIP ma'am #GiftArticle 'Mildred Pitts Walter, a Los Angeles schoolteacher who grew up in the Jim Crow South and wrote award-winning children’s books focusing on Black characters, filling a void in her students’ reading material, died on May 19 in Redwood City, Calif. She was 103.' https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/books/mildred-pitts-walter-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.1pBc.qGf-L2TWHP6h&smid=url-share #writers #writing #BlackHistory #BlackExcellence #obituaries

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  Tuberville grandstanding at the Fauci hearing and me going through my covid archive and screaming incoherently. Did you know that in 2020 Alabama, for the first time in its recorded history, had more deaths than births? Deep red Trumpy Alabama? https://www.wsfa.com/2021/09/16/alabama-health-officials-give-covid-19-update-friday/

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  #Brooklyn #NYC #HipHop #WuTangClan 'A section of Putnam Avenue in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood was officially co-named ‘ODB Jones Way’ during a ceremony on Saturday (July 25).' (His grandma still lives on that block! That's nice.) https://www.nme.com/news/music/brooklyn-street-named-after-wu-tang-clan-icon-ol-dirty-bastard-3959336

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  This is the kind of story that makes me love blogs https://www.chrisdeluca.me/2026/07/26/god-of-thunder-for-dos.html

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  You know how some news items just hit different? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/qvc-hosts-vote-unionize-1236655895/

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  Hey #Mastodon fam, just letting you know I've done some fixes for my Mastodon site, https://mastogizmos.com/ . MastoGizmos is a collection of 11 tools for exploring Mastodon. And now thanks to the updates they all function. They're all free and free of ads. None require any sort of login. I have some additional work to do on the site but some updates on SearchTweaks (different site) are first priority. Stay tuned.

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  Musk said he thinks store tomatoes are better than backyard tomatoes and now I lowkey think he's a lizard person https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-economist-interview-2000790016

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  I'm finding so many wonderful people this morning https://www.almanacnews.com/fire-wildfire/2026/07/22/heroic-plumbers-rescue-woman-from-burning-house-then-go-right-back-to-work/

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  Good morning to everyone but especially Rick Habeeb. 'Habeeb, 82, is on track to complete 50,000 miles 50 years to the date from when he first purchased his Schwinn Varsity 10-speed bicycle. His mileage as of Thursday, July 16, was about 49,874 miles.' https://www.rwcpulse.com/redwood-city/2026/07/22/82-year-old-redwood-city-local-set-to-complete-50k-miles-on-his-bike-by-august/

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  Good morning to everyone but especially Carter Gilson 'Picking up trash is Gilson’s favorite activity whenever he visits the Redbank Community Center playground multiple times a week. When asked why he does it, he said “to help our environment.”' https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/21/meet-the-6-year-old-south-portland-boy-who-loves-picking-up-trash/

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  #AI #birds #ornithology #slop 'In a recent commentary in the science journal Nature, researchers warned that hundreds of fake images have already been discovered on popular databases for recording species.' https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe

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  #sustainability #solar #SolarTowers 'In a world first, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are now publishing freely accessible operational data from the Jülich Solar Tower test power plant.' https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2026_053_first-database-for-solar-power-tower-plants.php

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  #Israel #TextMessages #AI #PublicOpinion 'Some 60% of American adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to a March poll by Pew Research, driven by its handling of its wars in Gaza and Iran. Israel is pouring tens of millions of dollars into a somewhat quixotic effort to beat back that tide, drawing on novel strategies powered by AI and directly paying conservative media.' https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-s-50-million-experiment-to-change-us-public-opinion/ar...

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  'Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture. To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/20/sculptor-charlie-kirk-s...